night he came back from Ares's temple drunk and angry
and said that Xena had to die. Cyrene's motherly instances kicked in and
refused to let Atrius to kill Xena. So he said they both will die
then, and off

he went to the barn to sharpen a knife. This lead
Cyrene to the

only thing she could do to save her child..... she
picked up an ax and

killed Xena's father. Xena however, doesn't learn
of this till much

later in her life when the furies make her insane
for not avenging

her father's death.

Years later, when Xena was a teenager, an army raided
her village

under the order's of a warlord named Cortese. Xena's oldest
brother Toris, tried to persuaded the villagers to take to the hills and
hide,

but, Xena and Lyceus got some of them to stay and fight.
They won the fight, but the cost for Xena to win the battle was the death
of Lyceus. After the battle was over, Xena vowed that this would never
happen again, so she formed her own army and started to raid the neighboring
villages to insure that history could never repeat itself.

It was during this time that Xena fell in love with a
warlord named

Petracles, who asked Xena to marry him. Xena said
yes and then

found out that he only wanted to conquer her, so when
she said yes, he lost interest. It was also during this period in her life
that she

captured a Roman noblemen by the name of Julius Caesar.
As well

as a Gaelic slave named M'Lia.
It was M'Lia who taught Xena

the use of pressure points. When making

friends with M'Lia, Xena started (or so she thought) a
relationship with Caesar, who later betrayed her. Caesar captured Xena
and her men to
use as examples to show what would happen to anyone who would dare pray
on Rome. They were all hung on crosses along a beach. Caesar also
had Xena's legs smashed with a sledge hammer to make the torture worse
for Xena. M'Lia was fortunate enough to escape Caesar's attack and rescued
Xena from being killed. M'Lia took Xena to a healer who reset her bones
for her. As this was going on, Caesar's men burst in and tried to
kill Xena. M'Lia felt that it was not Xena's time to die so she took
an arrow for her, to once again save her life.
After watching M'Lia die in her arms Xena became in raged, and I believe
that M'Lia's ability to fight was passed on to Xena when she died.
After that point a new Xena was born. One that was dedicated to one purpose
only, death!.

After this Xena went east and found herself caught up
with a warlord named Borias. Xena became close to him as well.
They were known as being ruthless butcher's. When Borias then tried to
start some political maneuverings with Ming Tzu,
(who was the Emperor of Chin at the time) and Lao Ma (who was ruler of
the Kingdom of Lao and the wife of Lao-Tzu). However Xena didn't
agree with Borias decision and interfered by kidnapping Ming Tzu son, Ming
Tien. Borias then became enraged with Xena's behavior and helped
Ming Tzu catch her when she was returning Ming Tien after the ransom was
paid. Ming Tzu then let his men hunt Xena like she was a animal.
Fortunately for Xena, Lao Ma found
her and saved her by hiding her in her home. Once there, Lao Ma healed
Xena's legs (from when Caesar broke them) and tried to convince Xena to
help her make an alliance with Ming Tzu where Xena and Broias would be
the peace keepers. Xena still full of angry turned on Lao Ma and killed
Ming Tzu, and tried to kill Ming Tien as well but Lao Ma fought them both
(with some mystical power she posed) to protect Ming Tien who turned out
to be her son. Both Xena and Broias were banished from the Kingdom.

After that, Xena formed a new army (with Broias as her
chief

lieutenant) and went on a bloody rampage of destruction.
Xena was

now known as "The Destroy of Nations". I'm not sure
as to why she went on this rampage, maybe to try to ease her own pain?,
but in any

case she did and during it she came across the Ixion Stone.
Ixion was

the father of all centaurs, and the stone was said
to carry all the essence of Ixion's evil centaur. Also it was said
that the stone would bestow great power to who ever use the stone to change
himself into that wicked centaur. Xena wanted this power and she
and her army fought the group of centaurs (lead by Kaleipus) who was guarding
the stone. It seemed that Xena would bet the centaurs and gained
the stone, if it wasn't for the fact the Borias once again betrayed her
and helped to keep the stone from her. Xena ordered for the capture
of Boris (alive) but Dagnine (another of her lieutenant's) killed him,
which Xena didn't find out till years later. Xena distort at the
loss of Borias, made a deal with Kaleipus. She promised to withdraw
her army never to return if, he raised her son Solan that she and Broias
had some time earlier. Xena had many other great battles, some of which
she made friends. As is the case with the giant Goliath who saved her life
when they were fighting Garth, (the biggest giant who lived) while his
family was murdered by Garth himself. Another one of her battles
happened in Gaul where Xena befriended a woman named Bodicea. It seemed
that Xena only used Bodicea to steel her army from her and kick her out.
Bodicea then married a British King named Prasutagas who got his army to
fight Xena, but this was a loss cause for Xena defeated them.

After this it is assumed the Xena made her returned to
Greece and went the bloodiest rampage you could image. Raiding village's
left, right, and center. This is where Callisto comes into play. For
this is the time where Callisto's home town Cirrah was raided by Xena's
army and the town was burned and women and children were killed. Callisto's
parent's were both killed in the attack, and although it was not Xena's
fault that the village burned since it was Xena's lieutenant Darphus
who gave the command to burn it. However Callisto blames Xena since
it's her army, and so from that point on Callisto vowed revenge on Xena which
brings us to the Callisto we all love o hate.

Now to what I believe was Xena's greatest task.... Hercules!.
Xena by this time really wanted to make a name for herself, and hey, what
better way to do that then to kill the son of Zeus!